Shearer Future At Newcastle Now In Serious Doubt

Written by Dr. Ed Harrison

11:29pm Saturday, May 30th, 2009

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There’s not many times we will call a news report sensational, but that may be true tonight, with the Sunday Times reporting that Mike Ashley will sell Newcastle for around £100M, in what amounts to be a fire sale of the famous Tyneside club.

Alan Shearer – wage demands reported to be excessive

And the Telegraph is now reporting that Shearer’s wage demands to take the vacant Manager position at the club were excessive, given that he has no experience in management, hasn’t got all his coaching qualifications yet, the club is now in the Championshp next year, and Shearer after all, was only able to get 5 points from a possible 24 available, and in 6 of those final 8 games, the team didn’t even score a goal.

So in truth – that’s not an outstanding record on which to base an argument for a huge salary – at least not initially.

We assume Alan went and and asked for what he would have received if the club stayed up – which we understand to be £4M a year for 4 years – but now we are in the Championship, those wages will need to be trimmed, just like everybody else, because the club just cannot afford it, and has already launched a huge cost cutting progam, with 150 non-playing staff already laid off.

So now the future of Alan Shearer as Newcastle manager has been cast into some serious doubt, unless there is a White Knight about to turn up – to save our club.

If we cannot get Shearer to manage the club, then let’s offer the great Guus Hiddink £5M next season to manage the club, with an extra £2M bonus if we get promoted. Those figures are something we just made up – but give Guus an offer he cannot refuse – and it would be for a single season.

The money is really small fish, given the revenue the club will start making again in the Premier League – and Guus seems to love these different challenges he gets, to futher test his brilliant skills as a football manager and motivator – he would be welcomed BIG TIME on Tyneside.

He got a nice win in the FA Cup Final 2-1 today – against a gallant Everton side – after being 1-0 down following a superb strike after just 24 seconds, from former Newcastle player Louis Saha.

And Guus has made a huge difference at Chelsea – and he could turn the club around very quickly at Newcastle.

Of course it would take some persuading to get him to come to Newcastle – if only for a year – and it’s still an exciting thought – if nothing else. 😀

The other more likely option if Newcastle cannot get Shearer, is to offer Wigan manager Steve Bruce the job – and he would not refuse it a second time.

And of course he has had Birmingham promoted from the Championship a couple of times, so Steve has experience in both the Championship and Premier Leagues, and has become a much better manager over the last couple of years.

And of course he is a Geordie, who turned down the job back in 2004, after Bobby Robson was sacked . Sunderland are said to be after him, but he would prefer Newcastle over Sunderland – there’s little doubt about that.

But we are getting way ahead of ourselves here – job one is to find new owners – and quickly.

Ashley has only said that he’s selling, for all anyone knows shearer and co could have known this for weeks and everything might be going as planned as far as the takeover is concerned, we don’t know anything but we’re all predicting the worst!

Also, im gonna be honest when i say that if there’s any truth in Shearer contract talks stalling over the wages he’s demanding, then im a little disappointed. He is a manager with no experience being asked to take the helm of a club who have just been relegated and quite clearly now, do not have money to throw around.

A friend of mine who works at SJP (not for much longer) bumped into Ben Shepherd not long after they got relegated and Shepherd told him to “watch this space” in the next couple of weeks, apparently the club has been valued at 96 million with it’s championship status and the Shepherds and someone linked with The Sage are going to be running the show in the very near future. Ashley is desperate to unload, the staff are being culled, the shops will be next.

Holy hit with a s infront this could turn nasty very quickly! Leeds here we come! We need a lot of money not some millionaire we need a high billionaire to come in and properly rid us of debt! Was so upbeat about us going down thinking of the players we were going to buy and a fresh new start now I’m bricking it! Ashley has well and truely killed us!

Fans should own etc I just made this comment on the previous thread, but am repeating it here in reponse to your comment. It sounds like a nice idea for fans buying and running the club, but can anyone seriously see even a hundred fans investing £1000 never mind 100,00. Now if we were all MPs perhaps we could claim it on expenses.

Seriously it just will not happen, you have more chance of aliens landing on the Town Moor than finding 100,000 Toon fans with that much spare cash.

I’m going to build a time machine, wish me luck. I’m going to turn things around by winning Euromillions every week. If I succeed I’ll buy the club from Ashley and distribute a share to everyone in Newcastle

Damn–just typed a long-ish response along the lines of “it can be done, it will take work & smarter, more skillful people than me to figure out finances and legal stuff, but it’s not impossible. All worthy undertakings start with a vision and faith.”

right. Signing off to watch my local team, the New York Red Bulls. And if you think NUFC were dire, please stay up late and get an eyeful of this horror show…

Fans could never own a club that hopes to be going somewhere. Even if the money could be raised to buy it, what about buying players and general running costs. It’s a nice idea but never going to happen.

Why couldn’t he have done this a few days ago, Dr whatever his name is who has jus bought Portsmouth may have come in for us

Tooneskimo, Graham Wylie who is the majority shareholder and has just retired as managing director of Sage International is worth £143 million, it could be he is going to take over Newcastle United with Shepherd, hopefully other local millionaires will jump on board to dilute Shepherds power.

The board locked in talks with Shearer and Co. for a week. Time dragging on, fans eager but getting anxious. Staff made redundant. Then this bombshell is dropped along with a hint that its Shearer’s excessive PERSONAL demands that could scupper the deal?

That looks suspiciously as if Ashley wants to deflect attention away from the fact he’s messing everyone around on Tyneside yet again. Harris was reported in the area early in the week. If Ashley had been sent by a rival club to completely disable the club, he could not have done a better job.

We are well and truly fckued , there is no way on gods earth that a takeover will happen in time for us to be ready for the new season . A Owner that does not want to be here No manager overpaid players that are only here for the money and no love of the club.

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